Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/12/18
By: Yeh Su-ping and Elizabeth Hsu
Taipei, Dec. 18 (CNA) Former Presidential Secretary-General Tseng Yung-chuan (曾永權)
Tseng Yung-chuan (曾永權/CNA file photo)
was denied permission to travel to China next month because the travel restriction on him – a former government official who had access to top level information- has not yet passed the deadline, Presidential Office spokesman Alex Huang (黃重諺) said Monday.
Tseng, who served in the previous Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) administration, applied on Dec. 6 for the Presidential Office to allow approval for a visit to the mainland, Huang said, noting that Tseng had planned to set off on Dec. 21 for the trip, which he said is aimed at visiting Taiwanese business people and students on the mainland.
However, Tseng, now a deputy chairman of the opposition Kuomintang (KMT), failed to submit his travel application 20 days before his planned departure date as the rules of the Classified National Security Information Protection Act demand. [FULL STORY]